Looking for a wide selection of Oratorios from various periods of music history, then you’ve come to the right place! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderfully dramatic sacred works on offer from Stretta Music today!
In 1700, Pope Clement IX banned the latest wave of explicit and violent opera in Rome for five whole years. But not even his own members of the Roman Curia wanted to forego the dramatic musical pleasures, so they gave established opera composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Caldara theatrical spiritual texts to set to music. These new works were performed in the oratories, the prayer rooms of monasteries, without any staging or set. This is how a genre got its name, the oratorio, and it was in essence, musically identical to opera.
One of the most famous arias by Georg Frideric Handel, his Lascia ch’io pianga which is well known from his hugely popular opera Rinaldo, originally comes from his first oratorio “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno”.
The genre became just as successful as opera, and as opera moved into the 20th & 21st centuries with modern rock operas like Tommy by The Who, the oratorio has also evolved, with works such as “Luther” by Dieter Falk.
for: SSAA , Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037687
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670933
(Weihnachtsoratorium)
for: 3 trumpets, timpani, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 277438
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 176000
Oratorio de Noël (Ausgabe nach dem Erstdruck von 1869)
Fassung mit deutschem Text
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 136748
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts), organ, timpani, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1037863
As Dew in Aprille
for: Children's Choir [Female Choir] [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498356
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671713
Oratorio
on passages from the Holy Bible and the Catholic liturgy
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 488833
for: Piano
Item no.: 603403
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 457054
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 119316
for: Soli (AT), Frauenchor (SSA), 3 Blockflöten (SAA), (/) 3 Violinen, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 230546
for: Soli (STBarB)), gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Flöten, 2 Englisch-Horn, 2 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 2 Hörner, 4 Trompeten, 3 Posaunen, Pauken, Harfe, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 342334
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116177
for: SATB with SSATBar Soli [Orch.]
Book
Item no.: 937796
Geistliches Oratorium in drei Abteilungen
Erste Abteilung: Advent und Weihnachten
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1551885
Eine Geschichte
for: Blockflöte(n)
Stimmensatz Vögel
Item no.: 781296
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 748088
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 760625
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 607121
Piano reduction
Item no.: 141182
Score
Item no.: 617790
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 139201
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039906
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1038739
for: Tenor Voice a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 876831
for: SAB, Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040334
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 177890
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Harp
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482973
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160602
for: Gemischter Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 342102
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 690346
aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium
Tritonus Musikedition
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts), timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351685
Festive Christmas music from the Dresden Frauenkirche
Audio-CD
Item no.: 490664
Weihnachtsoratorium nach einem mittelalterlichen Mysterienspiel von Arnoul Greban
Study Score 382, Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 362005
Texheft
Lyric book
Item no.: 235911
für 2 gem Chöre, Streicher und Bc, Stimmen Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1657304
for: Youth choir
Choir score
Item no.: 487569
aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium, Teil 1, BWV 248,8
Trompetenstimme in B und C
Voce con Tromba 8a
for: Voice (bass), trumpet, organ
Organ score, Parts
Item no.: 276924
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385058
Suite aus op. 12
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557468
Christmas for Band
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671241
Trilogie sacrée
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241831
aus dem "Weihnachtsoratorium" BWV 248
Time for Brass
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1565790
1 Schuber mit 6 Bänden
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 671622
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1653864
for: Frauenchor, gemischter Chor, 5 Vorsänger, Gemeinde, Orgel (oder: Sopran, vier- bis fünfstimmiger Chor)
Score
Item no.: 230843